There are times when a gust of wind fills your sails, knocking you slightly off course, but it’s easily corrected. In no time, you’re back on course. Then, there are those times when a gust is so strong and unexpected that your ship is tossed violently and you become disoriented, …
I have been sensing a need to do a little housecleaning in my heart….and in what I write. I started this blog with the purpose of exhorting and encouraging others….to share what God is showing me and teaching me. That remains my purpose though I have strayed from it several …
Jesus came to earth and exemplified the normal Christian life. Various scriptures exhort us to become like Him. I don’t believe God would exhort us, even command us, to become something we could not become….to do something that is impossible for us to do. 1 John 2 tells us this …
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I often start the year with a long list of books I’d like to read. Many of them do get read, but some do not. Reading through the Bible this year is at the top of the list. After that, here’s my reading to-do list:The first 10 are on the …
My top 5 reads of 2012: 5. Normal Christianity by Jonathan Welton This book, more than any other, revealed to me what a normal Christian life should look like…that Jesus is the example of what our lives should look like not only in certain areas, but in all of life. …